26.01.2013

In the House of the Hangman 1209

“Gestalt by any
other anonymous sweetener,” as well as “a ball of nose bleeds as white as —
microphones, planets in unfortunate orbit, where adults are light fixtures with
“fogbow” and “infinity mists” or moments when “a nasal capillary bursts, / a
cabernet stream curves / around your inferior lip.” “Everything carries the
courage of Capri Sun, of string cheese” rather than being normative. “It’s like
being kissed hard on the brain by an angel with a strap-on.” When my kids were
little, my wife read the entire series out loud to them. One time I walked by
the room and all three were weeping. “What's wrong?” I asked. “J-J-J-J-Jack
died!!” More wailing. “Who’s Jack?” [Carry me along taddy, like you done thru
the toy fair] “The the the the ... the DOG!” Irrevocable black, irrevocable
white / … / teeth in sky / … / How many times / to be women or woman and /
woman and man and / man woman / … / black milk spurt destroyed / across every
straight line / … / and I’m lying there, black green and white / … / and a
crest of red / bites at the head of the board / spitted fuchsia on lavender
thighs. The formula is a simple quarter-power exercise: You take the mass of a
plant or an animal, and its metabolic rate is equal to its mass taken to the
three-fourths power. 1.5 billion pulses or heartbeats. I’ll explain how this
works down below, but the point is, this rule seems to govern all life. Later I
make a potion with tajá blossoms from the lagoon and I summon Cobra Norato. “I
want to tell you a story. Shall we wander in those trimmed islands? Pretend
there’s moonlight.” The river choked in a ravine. The road toad is spying on
me. In other words, “I came to Carthage, where a caldron of unholy loves was
seething and bubbling all around me.” Those with winged sexes cut their hair
military style. “Fon-gu!” Winged or wingèd. It was at the far edge of the far
edge. Dread snake Podiac / … / dew rat / … /
… / zylocaine pontoon meat cement /
… / the major hover reason major / … / lifter lace bead mega-shovel. “The
historical process maximizes a hide of consensus, like these tanneries — / odiferous,
outskirts — to live nearby the skinning factories / chiffon of the living,
working, mouth, tongue / scudding — wet blue, blue blue sky, cascade pools, drenched
splashing child / biocide: pentachlorophenol — resource demure, tissue of cells
begin to hear / chromium — lungs to breathe out objects / leftover leather
turned into glue —feeding on silt, feeding on bones — barbed wire / when
diamond found, eye put out, hard bark, evidence bare foot, climb cliff face / difficulty
of stepping back from atmosphere — elicit / osmosis through skin, woven hair,
veins / components of the engine: cylinder head, valve train, / transformers to
regulate light, incandescent, starlight, sun at noon / treaties remains
etcetera — compression where there were terms — of / agreement where there were
— the corn needs the be harvested / largest collection of Impressionists / now
we make mounds of paper / laminate causation” … On this day in 1941, A Philip
Randolph officially announced the March on Washington. It worked. It was
part of things. OK. Time to listen to a higher-fidelity version of Beuys’ tonband in filzstapel [audio tape in
stacked felt], the stummes grammophon
[mute phonograph], which displays a covered phonograph record, perhaps with a
recording of Beuys’ felt­wrapped piano (felt, of course, is a material known
for damping sound, as it’s used around the hammers inside a piano). Though
we’ll never know, because the swing­arm and needle have been replaced by a
bone, bluntly inverting Rilke’s hallucinatory dream of playing the jagged
coronal suture of the skull with a phonograph cartridge. Which is or is not to say that “The dynamics of low-frequency temperature anomalies depend on whether a density signature exists (Iselin 1939; Liu and Shin 1999; Schneider 1999). Temperature anomalies with a density signature are governed by planetary wave dynamics, whereas those that are density compensated by salinity anomalies behave as a passive tracer in the upper ocean. Density-compensated salinity and temperature variability is known as spiciness (Veronis 1972; Munk 1981) with hot and salty water having high spiciness ...”